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RFC 974 - Determining Where to Send a Message

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### Determining Where to Send a Message

The explanation of how mailers should decide how to route a message is discussed in terms of the problem of a mailer on a host with domain name LOCAL trying to deliver a message addressed to the domain name REMOTE. Both LOCAL and REMOTE are assumed to be syntactically correct domain names. Furthermore, LOCAL is assumed to be the official name for the host on which the mailer resides (i.e., it is not a alias).

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RFC 974 - Determining Where to Send a Message